The Merchant of Sydney

A book about a young Chinese merchant in Australia during Indonesia’s independence struggle. He died mysteriously, probably because of his involvement in Australia’s leftist movement.

October 13, 2010

ECHOES BOOK THREE: AUSTRALIA-CHINA-INDONESIA
Author: Charlotte Clayton Maramis
Published by: CC Maramis, 2010
Pages: xiii, 154 pp.

SEPTEMBER 1945, Brisbane, Australia. A Dutch vessel was loaded with ammunition and other war equipment to be used against Indonesian freedom fighters. This information caused the Australian dockworkers to boycott the Dutch ships in order to put pressure on this European nation so as not to regain its former colon

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